Four-week-old baby taken to hospital due to sunburn

A four-week-old boy is among ten children who have been admitted to hospital since the hot weather began.

Six of the ten patients, the oldest of which is 14 needed specialist treatment at the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead, Sussex, due to the severity of their sunburn.

No parent or carer intends for their child to get sunburnt and accidents do happen.

But spending just a couple of minutes applying sunscreen to a child before they go out in the sun is the difference between a summer of fun and a summer spoilt by sunburn.

The sun at this time of year is very strong and children can get burnt very quickly. The children we've treated over the last few weeks have been referred to our unit because their burns have been so severe they have required specialist treatment.